Chapter 8
Estella's contempt for Pip's coarse hands and thick boots inaugurates his class shame.
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From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The novel's central critique: that the apparatus of gentlemanly status is funded by criminal money and built on contempt for the laboring poor who actually love Pip.
Chapter 27
Pip's shame at Joe's London visit — the moral nadir of his snobbery.
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Magwitch's exultation that his criminal wealth has bought a gentleman exposes the fiction of inherited status.
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